Said Tim Hannig, director of Jaguar Land Rover Classic Director: “The Jaguar D-type is one of the most iconic and beautiful competition cars of all time, with an outstanding record in the world’s toughest motor races… The opportunity to continue the D-type’s success story, by completing its planned production run in Coventry, is one of those once-in-a-lifetime projects that our world-class experts at Jaguar Land Rover Classic are proud to fulfil.”

This is the third time Jaguar classic has revisited uncompleted production projects. Six missing Lightweight E-types were completed in 2015 and nine XKSSs were built in two years from 2017 – 2018.